Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a Union of Beggars? Washington studied the report seriously but without enthusiasm. Top level policymakers appreciated the sweat and good intentions which had gone into it, but in many respects they considered it discouragingly unsatisfactory...
...Staunton, Va., City Manager W. Guy Ancell hoped that, by raising the water level in the city's North River dam, he could save the $300,000 it would cost to build a new reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...
...domestic economic policy. Foreign economic policy was handled by a separate committee. Morrison failed at his job, in part because of ill health, in part because he had too many other things to do, in part because the setup itself left him in the splendid isolation of a high-level policy committee, where his executive abilities had little to take hold...
Officially, Cripps was described as minister without portfolio and chairman of the economic committee. This looked like a repetition of the organization that had failed to work under Morrison. But this time, high-level policy on both domestic and foreign economic affairs will be handled by a committee of which Prime Minister Attlee will be chairman. Cripps's new committee will be concerned with actually carrying out production plans...
...cannot achieve the goal of full and stable employment nor maintain the present "high level of employment" on a two-world basis...